The official version goes off the rails
The PRI bench in the Senate does not buy the story. For them, the Interoceanic Train accident was not the fault of a single operator. It was the end result of serious flaws in design and construction, long documented by the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF). And yet, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) found its perfect ‘scapegoat’ in the driver.
The proof? The technical observations that no one wanted to fix.
“When [the train] derails, it will be another matter,”
warned Senator Carolina Viggiano, citing previous warnings. For her, blaming the driver is just an attempt to wash her hands and protect those truly responsible, whom she openly called ‘friends of AMLO’s children’.
A train built with irregularities
The list of problems is technical and concrete. Senator Claudia Anaya detailed what the ASF found: tracks of a different gauge than what the train needs, sleepers incompatible with the installed ballast and even payments for works that were never carried out.
Viggiano went further:
“All of this government’s infrastructure works have observations, surcharges and none of them work.”
The pattern, according to the legislators, is clear: opacity, lack of real supervision and a politicization that contaminates even technical decisions. The worst thing is that we already saw this movie.
Both ask for an external and independent expert opinion, like the one that was done after the collapse of Metro Line 12. But there’s the problem:
“We no longer have an independent Prosecutor’s Office and all power is in the hands of a single political group,”
Anaya denounced.
Meanwhile, federal representative Ana González González presented an initiative to reduce the working day to 40 hours per week. A progressive proposal that seeks to improve the lives of workers, demonstrating that there are issues where legislation can be done with people in mind.
But today, the focus is on that trainwreck. And the uncomfortable question: Are they punishing the messenger for not hearing the message?
